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Queens in zines, Miss Holland candidate Caroline Hooft in Prive

The Netherlands are quite famous for their topmodels. Many say that a beauty queen is not a model at all, but many queens have shown that they can be successful in the modeling industry. Some are


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Queens in zines,  Marlène Vermeulen in Weekend

She was a top 7 finalist at Miss Europe 1979/1980 and won Miss Amity, after being 1st Runner Up at Miss Holland 1979. Marlène made the headlines in the mid 80s in The Netherlands, as she


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Queens in Zines, Stephanie Flatow in Écho

Welcome to our new item on Miss Holland Now, Queens in Zines. We will highlight articles from magazines about dutch pageantry from the present and the past. We translate the articles, if they are not in


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DiDiDi

In 1996 the dutch “Wheel of Fortune” (Rad van Fortuin), had its own beauty pageant to select the new assistant for the host of the show, Hans van der Togt. Didi was one of the participants


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DiDiDi

The first Mister Nederland for Mister World was Joost Ammerlaan, who represented The Netherlands at the first ever Mister World held in Turkey.Joost didn’t make the top 10. On the DiDi on Tuesday picture we see


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DiDiDi

The second Didi on Tuesday is one of Miss Nederland 1995 Didi Schackman in 1996, when she wishes the dutch soccer team good luck on their trip to England for the 1996 UEFA European Football Championship


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DiDiDi

A new column on your favorite website will be DiDiDi, which stands for Didi op Dinsdag (in English: DiDi on Tuesday).Didi Schackman is Miss Miss Nederland 1995. In 1995 the Miss Nederland was a live television


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European Friday, Miss Europe 1973

The lovely and beautiful Ank Groot was crowned Miss Europe 1973 in january 1974 and when she won she already knew she had give it up in just 5 months as in may 1974, Miss Europe


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80’s Saturday, Miss Amsterdam 1987

On april 9th 1987, the finals of Miss Amsterdam 1987 took place in Discotheque ” De Bios” at the Leidseplein. A day before the contest a local newspaper published a picture with 3 of the candidates


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European Friday, Miss Europe 1977

Although the finals of Miss Europe 1977 were held in 1978, the pageant was still called Miss Europe 1977 as it the 1977 pageant was postponed. The finals took place in the capital of Finland: Helsinki.


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